(HBO) – The People’s Committee of Hoa Binh province has organised a conference on coordination in building a dossier for Mo Muong to be included in the UNESCO List of Intangible Cultural Heritage in Need of Urgent Safeguarding.
The event saw the attendance of Deputy Minister of Culture, Sports and
Tourism Hoang Dao Cuong and representatives from the Vietnam National Academy
of Music and the People’s Committees of Hanoi, and Dak Lak, Son La, Phu Tho,
Thanh Hoa and Ninh Binh provinces.
Photo: Bui Van Khanh, Deputy Secretary of the
provincial Party Committee and Chairman of the provincial People’s Committee,
concludes the conference.
According to the provincial Department of
Culture, Sports and Tourism, the provincial People’s Committee issued Plan No.
220/KH-UBND on November 25, 2011, on the coordination.
The department has sent documents to cities and
provinces, asking for joint efforts in building the dossier, and partnered with
the Vietnam National Academy of Music to conduct research studies and organise
seminars.
The sides have identified the targeted heritage
– Mo Muong, a collection of verses recited at traditional Muong funerals.
Among the localities that are reviewing the list
of Mo Muong, the central province of Thanh Hoa has done the work.
Participants at the conference looked into tasks
of the localities, the progress of the dossier building and next steps, along
with capital allocation for the project.
Deputy Minister of Culture, Sports and Tourism
Hoang Dao Cuong stressed that the building of the dossier is an urgent task.
He said the localities should send the dossier
to the ministry by December this year, which will be assessed before January
31, 2023 and submitted to UNESCO no later than the end of March 2023.
However, the work remains sluggish, he said,
asking Hoa Binh and other localities to speed up and outline a specific
roadmap, with quality and efficiency ensured.
Bui Van Khanh, Deputy Secretary of the
provincial Party Committee and Chairman of the provincial People’s Committee,
spoke highly of opinions raised by experts and localities, which, he said, will
help Hoa Binh consolidate and complete the dossier soon./.
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The provincial Department of Culture, Sports, and Tourism on December 24 organised a conference to report on the results of collecting, researching, restoring, and preserving "Bi doi”, a musical instrument of the airophonic family and a traditional instrument of the Muong ethnic people in Da Bac district.
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